Pour water over dates & cool. Mix margarine & sugar; beat in eggs, salt & vanilla. When dates are cool, add to sugar mixture. Then add baking soda, flour & nuts. Pour batter into clean vegetable or soup cans which have been greased well. Fill 1/2 to 2/3 full. Bake for 45 minutes at 375. When cool, shake from cans & wrap with foil.

Mrs Ernest (Mill) Tobin

From the <The Bliss of Cooking Returns>, Fort Bliss Officers Wives Club, Ft. Bliss, Tx. Downloaded from Glen's Mm Recipe Archive,